by Clara Curtis | Apr 13, 2016 | Horticulture & Landscape
When I was a little girl, I spent many days with my family “tromping” – that’s mountaineer talk for “tramping” – through the woods of western North Carolina looking for wildflowers. My folks owned a piece of property near the North Carolina/Tennessee state line off a...
by Clara Curtis | Mar 2, 2016 | Horticulture & Landscape
The Quilt Garden at the Arboretum requires a commitment to gardening not unlike what Victorian era gardeners called “carpet bedding” or floral plantings in masses of harmonious or contrasting colored foliage and flowers. In the 1870s, new plant species arriving from...
by Clara Curtis | Feb 10, 2016 | Horticulture & Landscape
I admit it, I adore flowers. I always have. As a self-proclaimed “flower child” of the 1960s, I often found myself running through gardens and fields, picking flowers and learning early on from my mother the fundamentals of making a bouquet. I wasn’t old enough yet to...
by Clara Curtis | Jan 20, 2016 | Exhibits
In today’s vernacular, the word “survivor” can connote many things: a popular T.V. show, someone who passed a challenging academic course, a hit song by an American R&B group and more importantly, an individual who has fought a battle against a life threatening...
